WorkScout - Job Board WordPress Theme <= 2.0.31 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting

6.4
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2021-24246
CVSS 6.4 (Medium)
Publicly Published April 8, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher RE-ALTER

Description

The Workscout Core WordPress plugin before 1.3.4, used by the WorkScout Theme did not sanitise the chat messages sent via the workscout_send_message_chat AJAX action, leading to Stored Cross-Site Scripting and Cross-Frame Scripting issues

Wordfence blocked 20,813,741 attacks targeting this vulnerability in the past 24 hours.

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2 affected software packages

Software Type Theme
Software Slug workscout
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 2.0.32, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 2.0.31
Patched Version
  • 2.0.32
Software Type Plugin
Software Slug workscout-core
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.3.4, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • < 1.3.4
Patched Version
  • 1.3.4

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